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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA Fishers financial analyst’s crab mofonguito was tasty enough to win him money he needs to open his own restaurant.
Gustavo Perrotta, who is launching Perrotta’s Kitchen, took home a $2,500 seed investment after his Latin-Asian-Italian fusion dish won over a judge panel of culinary experts June 14 at the Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge.
His entree—a cup of deep-fried plantains filled with crabmeat and topped with guacamole—beat two other finalists: a ginger pear jeweled apricot pie from the Heartland Pie Co. and a spicy burger from Surisa Cooking that included ginger, galangal, lemongrass and diced green beans.
Perrotta, an analyst at Freedom Mortgage, says the seed money has given him and his wife a “final push to make something happen sooner rather than later.”
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